Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosities.

For many of us, our idea of archaeology comes from a certain set of movies starring a

Fedora-Klad Professor.

He follows the clues, assembles the puzzle, and at the end he's found whatever mystical

maguffin had propelled him into action in the first place, and stopped the Nazis, of

course.

In reality though, it's not as exciting.

Sure an archaeologist might follow a clue to the location of a lost city, or a set of

dinosaur bones.

But sometimes all it takes is some heavy machinery, and a bit of dumb luck.

It came from outer space.

At least that's what people thought at first when they pulled it out of the ground in 1973.

It's known as the Wedge of Iude, and upon first glance, you might not see what all the

fuss is about.

It was found roughly 10 meters below the sand in Iude, Romania, beside two enormous mastodon

bones.

The fossils and the Wedge were sent for testing in Transylvania, where it was determined

that the bones were over 10,000 years old.

The Wedge, however, proved a much greater mystery.

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